The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1887-11-17

The Tampa epidemic seems near its end.
there bang but occasional new cases reported
The Gainesville, Tallahassee and Western
Auiaruad b quite certain 10 be built, and with
out doubt the ahops will be located here
6s;sr,sizs Record
Tho total sunber of deaths in Tampa, and
within four milo Of It, up 70 November 10 was
90, counting from the frs, death of yellow fever,
Oct g. These figures are from the Tampa 1+i-
buas.
--Mr g. n Van PraAg is back from bis visit
10 Meridian, and again gives us the assurance
that the necessary money for the building OF the
Pensacola and Memphis Railroad has been Sc
cured.-fM Psnsaeolian.
A four-ox wagon load Of oranges raised ID
Taylor county were haulded into Tallahassee
the other day The fruit was better than average
and sold at GO per thousand This is proof that
some orange trees in Northern Florida survived
the recent cold winter, and, indeed, they can be
found in many places.
Surveyor Fries says the Alabama, Florida
and Atlantic road will be graded into Euslls
within three weeks Several hundred hands are
hard At work, and the road-bed is expected to
advance rapidly. Orlando Reporter
Six schooner are in Palatka unloading iron
for the; Orange Belt Railway. Vessels arrive
there with their cargoes of rails IS fast 40 tney
can Be accommodated at the wharf-though In
this instance much faster-and the material is
now going 10 the front more rapidly than three
gangs can lay and spike it. The hitch 10 over
Oakland Bun
Twenty. nine car loads, or eight thousand
boxes of oranges, went North yesterday over
the 8. F W. road from this city II was inc
largest orange shipment ever made over 'ha'
road in one day. The present orange crop Is
no, % short ash was previously supposed II ~suio
be-Gainesciue advocate, 15n.
Last week we were shocked a, the inelli-
renee that John Triplett, editor OF the Thomas
Vile TINES, was MORALLY i'll of apoplexy we
are now rejoiced to learn thai he has fully re-
covered. God never made many truer, noOer
mr. more unselfsh men than John Triplett, and ii
viii be q gloomy day when he is called TO de-
part hence, and may that event be in The lar dls-
tsnt f,ture.-Bain6rtdge Democrat.
The steamer Hutchinson, which draws
twelve feet of water, successfully entered Omar
lotie Harbor, and sailed up TO the wharf al
Pnnta Gorda- 1t has been claimed by old coast
men that there is seventeen feet of water IN his
channel. Whether this claim be well founded
or not, it is shown that there is plenty OF water
for ordinary purposes OF navigation, and thu
day il near when city Of commercial import
ance will spring up on Charlotte Harbor 1t il
claimed that Punta Gorda is nearer to Cuba BY
ninety miles than Tampa is.-OrIand0 Reporter
DIR. Kost. 1.-THE eminent State Geologls' a
noted in our last issue, is visiting with his friend
MAE Waterman, and at intervals inspect
ing the country BY jaunts through it. de re
turned Tuesday fron a very interesting tour O
observation down through Cotton Plant wner
he discovered remains of manatee. then contin
ned on across fhe Withlaccochee to within lou
miles OF Crystal River, where he gathered almos
perfect remains of q mastodon, bones OF In
shoulder blade, vertebra and perfect teeth
Bones from extinct species of elephents repre-
senting different parts of their body, also rios
manatee and remains Of extinct species
hyena The Doctor is born geoloGst, AM
our only regret Is that the late State Leglsia
ture did moi order o geological survey OF tn
State and place 90 earnest and capable ma
at in head.-Ocold Banner.